Google is putting Safari-gate to bed, it appears, with a $17 million settlement with 37 states and the District of Columbia. This follows last year’s $22.5 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and last month’s ruling by a Delaware judge to throw out a class action lawsuit, both over the same issue.

The cases stem from a February 2012 discovery by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer that Google and three other online-ad companies had circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari web browser, placing tracking cookies on users’ computers without their knowledge.

As far as state investigations go, this one proved more costly to Google than the $7 million settlement with the same 37 states and D.C. over the collection of Wi-Fi data by Google’s street view cars.

Here’s a link to the settlement, as posted on the website of the Connecticut Attorney General.